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Pink Boots!!!

For the Pink challenge this week, Cee published a photo of a pair of pink cowboy boots. My competitive side came out, so I have to publish these two photos of the hot pink suede cowboy boots I wore with my wedding dress! Two of these gals who went to school with me from grade one through twelve came from Wyoming to California to witness this event they had probably decided would never happen so they had to witness it for themselves. The other one, also from Wyoming, I’d never met before, but she decided when she heard about those boots, no doubt, to come see for herself. Rita is in the middle, back row. Sheila is to your right. They are the two old friends.

Three blacks balance out the two pinks. The other feet belong to friends from my women’s poetry group in L.A. and to Liz, a friend I knew in Australia who came from Texas for the event. It was fun seeing folks from my varied lives all mixed together at the wedding. This was 31 years ago, folks, so no congratulations are in order.

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My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

Okay. I’m down with cowboy boots and I’m especially down with pink and red and denim blue boots.

But what do you do to polish your off-color nontraditional boots? Where’s the pink polish? Seriously! Boots get scuffed if you actually WEAR them, so what then? It is why, though I love them, ALL my cowboy boots (back before the bone spurs got too painful for anything that hard on my heels) were brown, black, or oxblood. And they were GORGEOUS. I miss then, except I don’t miss the pain!